2025 – Page 8 – Americana UK

Live Review: Robert Plant & Saving Grace + Burr Island, Royal Festival Hall, London – 11th December 2025

December 17, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Are you ready to be beguiled? That’s the prime question that attaches itself to Robert Plant’s latest band. Do you want to explore new musical directions, hear things you haven’t heard before, or are you really […]

Xan Tyler and Dusty Stray “Home”

December 17, 2025 Rick Thorn 0

Testament to the power of artistic companionship. “Home” is the charming result of a collaboration between Xan Tyler from Glasgow and Amsterdam-based Jonathan Brown, aka Dusty Stray. Both are highly accomplished solo performers who have made […]

The Song Remains: Joe Ely (1947 – 2025)

December 17, 2025 Martin Johnson 4

A Great Texas Artist Who Nearly Conquered The World Joe Ely, an icon of Texas music and country rock, has died at home in Taos, New Mexico, on December 15th from complications of Lewy Body Dementia, Parkinson’s, […]

Henry Grace “California Rain” – do you recall?

December 17, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

British singer-songwriter Henry Grace returns with ‘California Rain’, the fourth and final single from his forthcoming second album “Things Are Moving All Around Me”, which was co-produced by Blaine Harrison of Mystery Jets and recorded live […]

Video Review of the Year 2025

December 17, 2025 Andrew Frolish 2

Well, another year has flown by and will soon be consigned to history’s waste bin. It was a year of monstrous tariffs and volatile markets, of small boats and protests outside hotels, of ongoing, heartbreaking conflicts […]

Something for the weekend: Keyside “Cocodamol”

July 10, 2026 0

Well that’s it from us for this week. Don’t forget about our 25 year anniversary event in November which takes place across 2 stages in Liverpool at the end of November and features Chuck Prophet and […]

Book review: Willy Vlautin “The Left and the Lucky”

July 10, 2026 0

Willy Vlautin is well known as the chief songwriter of Richmond Fontaine and The Delines, trading in beautifully written vignettes of the people who have generally fallen between the cracks of the American dream. These dark […]

Emmylou Harris, Mumford and Sons and Jerry Douglas

Classic Clips: Mumford & Sons & Emmylou Harris ft. Jerry Douglas “The Road” – CMT Crossroads, The Factory, Franklin, Tennessee, 20th September 2012

July 10, 2026 0

The evening before San Francisco’s 2025 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival the Masonic Auditorium hosted a tribute concert to Emmylou Harris, the only artist to have graced the festival stages for each of its 25 years. During […]

Year: 2025

Live Review: Robert Plant & Saving Grace + Burr Island, Royal Festival Hall, London – 11th December 2025

Xan Tyler and Dusty Stray “Home”

The Song Remains: Joe Ely (1947 – 2025)

Henry Grace “California Rain” – do you recall?

Video Review of the Year 2025

Something for the weekend: Keyside “Cocodamol”

Book review: Willy Vlautin “The Left and the Lucky”

Classic Clips: Mumford & Sons & Emmylou Harris ft. Jerry Douglas “The Road” – CMT Crossroads, The Factory, Franklin, Tennessee, 20th September 2012

Les Thomas “I Remember Everything”

Latest AUK Podcast now available featuring author and journalist Liz Thomson